Beginning Scala 3: A Functional and Object-Oriented Java Language

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11. Simple Build Tool

David Pollak¹  , Vishal Layka² and Andres Sacco³

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

Bruxelles, Belgium

(3)

Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

During the different chapters of this book, you’ve mostly used the REPL to run the blocks of code and check the results. The command line is great because if you want to test something, it’s not necessary to open an IDE or create a project. When you need to create something more complex, the REPL is the worst alternative, so there are other tools that you can use to compile and run your application.

As you know, software ...